Handwriting Repair

Speaker:  Kate Gladstone, Noted Author of Handwriting Repair and "Calligraphy: Rx for illegible writing?"

Participants will learn what research reveals about the following topics:

• 1.  Why so many students (and teachers) have illegible handwriting.

• 2.  What the advantages and disadvantages are of today's popular handwriting systems.

• 3.  How to encourage legibility without stifling creativity.    
   

• 4.  Why there are so many different ways of writing the same letter "jee" or "kyoo."
   

• 5.  How legibility exercises can improve reading and spelling skills.

And Now the Surprise!
    The Low, Low cost of AVKO Inservices

• Cost:  $600.00 a day, plus expenses.  Grants available.

• Grants of up to $300.00 available to school systems that can demonstrate a need for financial assistance.

• Grants of up to $500.00 available to adult literacy organizations such as local chapters of the International Dyslexia Association, the Learning Disabilities Association, Literacy Volunteers of America, Laubach Literacy, Michigan Literacy, Reading Reform Foundation, the Right to Read Foundation, and any independent local literacy group or Homeschooling organization.